The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 128

Alas! out of it flew a little canary, just like the others, who cried:

Who acts: others · What happens: fly, cry · To what, where: little canary, knife

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 flew	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 it	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flew	obl
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 canary	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 canary	amod
9	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 others	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 others	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 others	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 others	det
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cried	nsubj
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 others	acl:relcl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past		a little canary		knife			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent canary=Theme out it=Location
2	cry speech: express	past	the others						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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